Chris Riddell Quotes

No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Sweet

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

  

  Chris Daughtry

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me.

  

  Daniel S. Loeb
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • King

• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Real

• No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.

  

  Chris Riddell
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